Quoting: StenPettI wonder what will be left once the AI bubble bursts. I sincerely hope this "we need to put AI into *everything*" trend is one of the things that goes away...

Well they are trying to make everything cloud based, right down to your toilet mate! What happens when the cloud has a bad day? or internet goes down? well often these devices just stop working. What happens when the company goes bust that is paying for this 'cloud' service? well they can send a KILL switch to all devices.

It is a DARK future indeed, one that humanity will likely be forced to reject outside of the billionaires running the world who can afford it all. WHY? because eventually we won't have any money to actually use or benefit from this crap, not with the way society functions now, so unless their going to give people $2000 UBI per week then I see a major cataclysm coming.

I wonder how Earth will look with a %98 poverty rate?

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ntsync does help many games BUT some benefit more by just using fsync. It is difficult to understand why and how but it is what it is.

The end results matter more then if it is CORRECT or not.

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Quoting: juxuanuOn the other side, as a solo game developer being able to generate some assets for your game can mean your project is now feasible.

Yeah its quite helpful, but I do suggest to put in %10 of hand touch-up effort to AI assets to clean them up and also correct artistic styling. I'm not a fan of DIRECT injection of AI assets because you end up with some very cringe and obvious mistakes all over the game.

One thing I'd like developers to use which has yet to catch on is training VOICE models and getting much more voice acting into games, something that smaller dev studios normally can't afford due to high cost of human VA. Fact is, VA need to just live with this consequence of AI impacting their jobs.

Your voice is NOT all that unique, many people share extremely similar voice patterns and voice actors have been replicating other peoples voices for a long time in comedy. Should someone be sued if they sound like a famous actor? it all comes down to the sourced training data and consent! not if a AI-Voice sounds similar to someone else!

ART on the other hand, that is very tricky as their pirating copyrighted content in order to train many of these LLM models up, its licensed to be viewed by the public BUT NOT commercially replicated for sale, which is what these AI graphics models often do. If they training it off genuine public works and resell-able free art then that is fine.

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This new model is the M Preset?! I think.

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I got a Intel ARC NUC PC recently on a decent deal, it was barebones,
I knew it wasn't going to have RAM or NVMe which is fine as I have a spare, but the memory DDR5 SODIMM was going to be like $300-1000, so I've had to just throw it on the storage shelf until I can find a realistic memory price sometime.

Maybe once the entire world explodes when the AI bubble bursts (when we are all bankrupt), I'll find some!

Every time I look at DDR5 prices I see dramatic increases in cost. I don't think people realize how much of a negative impact this is going to have on the PC market.

PS. Down under these Ryzen AI APU devices are INSANELY expensive, we talking $3000-5000 price tag.. I got this ARC NUC which has USB4 and EVERYTHING(feature wise excluding nvme/ram inc) for like %10 of that cost, lol

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It is desperately needed. I do wonder how Stalker-2 looks now with these improvements which has MASSIVE ~%40 drop in fps compared to Windows WITH NVIDIA cards! (huge issue with nvidia which may or may not be fixed)

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PVP FPS fatigue perhaps?

There is a lot they can do with this game, I don't know if it has it but they could do 4-8 player coop story missions and all sorts, that be fun challenge. Leaning on pure player vs player engagement WILL eventually fatigue out, even the MASSIVE BIG SUCCESSES have suffered player drops due to this issue!

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Does escape from tarkov now have Linux AC support? was pretty sure it basically is blocked from Linux.

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I HATE YOU ALL...

sorry, felt like I needed to be different.

Merry XMAS! :)

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Quoting: tpauThey don't have to release galaxy for Linux at all to be viable for Linux gaming. There is already plenty of tools handling that.🥰

Yeah but they have their cloud saving and multiplayer all hooked up into GoG Galaxy 2+, plus its not a bad launcher. It's always good to offer a native option from the horses mouth rather then depending on 3rd party apps that MOST people will likely not know about coming from Windows.

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